The Autumn Bride by Anne Gracie6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() She couldn’t utter a word or marshall a single coherent thought.’A very stern, very masculine archangel.’ Sister Josefina sighed. ‘Tall, dark, and as beautiful as an archangel.’Bella couldn’t move a muscle. ‘Can’t you guess?’Mystified, Bella shook her head.’An Englishman.’Bella froze. You have a visitor!”A visitor? Who?’ In eight years, Bella had never had a visitor. She was the youngest and prettiest of the nuns, merry and lively and dedicated to her vocation. ‘Isabella,’ Sister Josefina repeated as she entered the door. ![]() Life isn’t a fairy tale.”Isabella Ripton,’ said a voice from the doorway. I won’t stay here, waiting forever for someone to rescue me. What will you do? How will you support yourself? Who will protect you? It’s dangerous ”I will support myself, ‘ Bella said. ‘I’m leaving anyway.”I don’t believe you. ‘Nobody is coming for me, Paloma.’ Bella glanced at Sister Beatriz, who was still asleep, and said in a lowered voice. Here’s a short excerpt:’I’m leaving the convent.’ Bella’s announcement was followed by a stunned silence. Now those dreams have withered and Bella is taking charge of her life… She waited like a princess in a tower dreaming of her prince for eight years. He placed her in a convent school, and left. ![]() Lieutenant Ripton, tall, dark, and as beautiful as an archangel. At the age of thirteen, in the middle of a war, Isabella was saved from a forced marriage to a man she hated when handsome young English Lieutenant Luke Ripton married her. ![]()
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